Current mood:

enraged

Staying the Course
I have no words. I am reading and watching all of these things about the aftermath of Katrina and words fail me.

I looked into driving down to Baton Rouge just so I knew that I was doing SOMETHING, but it is too far, and like Cecily said, there isn't a National Emergency Leave Act...

When I thought that our government has sunk as low as they can go, they find the door to the basement. It can't escape everyone's attention that the vast majority of the people who the government has ignored are poor and black. It is ethnic cleansing, plain and simple.

There is a vast array of excuses out of the Federal Government. All of which make me sick.

"People are firing at us!"
Really? Does no one fire at the army in Iraq? We're still there dropping aid. Why the hell can't...no, WON'T we do it for our own countrymen and women? [Aside here: I am not in any way shape or form condoning the people who fired guns, I just don't think that it should have cut the rescue efforts by a day.]

"It's lawless!"
See my first point about Iraq.

"The squalor is terrible..."
So, go in and fix it!!!! And by the by, if you had evacuated correctly the first time, you know...not setting up the superdome and the convention centers as the places to go and maybe, I don't know, do something so that people without cars could get out it wouldn't have been so terrible because people wouldn't be living like animals.

"They're looting"
My husband is insulin dependant diabetic. If, because of government oversight, he ran out of insulin and no one helped us get more I would be bashing down any window I had to to get him insulin. I don't care if there are men with loaded guns on the other side. All these people, our countrymen, have left are their family and they ARE NOT going to let them go gently into that good night. People grabbing TV's...I have no idea about...

They need food and water and not more people with guns. If you are worried about people getting violent from lack of help why on earth are you sending people with guns saying that they are locked and loaded.

If I could ask this administration anything I would ask how they would treat tens of thousands of white people who did as they were told, lost their homes, and were forgotten about. Unfortunately I know the answer would be that they would be doing more than they are doing now.